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I should like to thank the citizens of Ruston for their attendance at the Ruston Civic Center on Jan. 26 for our first public hearing of proposed updates to our zoning code.

At the same time, we wish to thank those of you who have made contact with us directly to offer suggestions and changes but were unable to attend this first formal public hearing.
When we adopted the new zoning code in November, 2012, we promised that we’d continue to look at improvements to the code and that we’d come back to the public for more input every year.

s you go to your summer homes to bask in your shallow life, may you choke on it. You go home leaving necessary and valuable legislation regarding these child war refugees at our southern border. If these children were anywhere else in the world, we would be sending food, water, money, and housing. Yet, on our own soil we waffle, accusatory, and push for removal of these war refugees ASAP. No wonder some nations label us as hypocrites. Witness this; we don’t even help refugees from our own hemisphere.

It is ironic that after all this time Louisiana is once again on the cusp of another heated debate over our academic standards.

Ironic because at this stage of the game, those much talked about Common Core standards have become our own standards and, frankly, most of the controversy that once surrounded them seems to be fading — except for the usual outbursts from a noisy and increasingly marginalized few.